Scientific Meeting: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Malevolence and the War in Ukraine

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3. There are no CMEs/CEs offered for this event.

The 1055th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Malevolence and the War in Ukraine”

Thursday, April 21, 2022

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Panelists: Gilbert Kliman, M.D., B. James Bennett, M.D., and Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D.

A team of psychoanalysts creating a mental health resource for Ukrainian refugees recently found itself deeply immersed in thoughts beyond trying to render first aid. They were impelled to think about and have strong emotions with regard to personal and global history and the questions of whether genocide is predictable and war a part of human species behavior.

That exchange will be continued in this meeting where the panelists will reflect upon our “shadow side” of being human. Now more than ever, we recognize that our BEING HUMAN also involves CREATING WARS. How do we explain the human motivation to destroy other humans? How far will some humans go, like PUTIN, in their destructive agenda? As psychoanalysts and as ordinary humans, how can we prepare ourselves emotionally to face/bear the Ukrainian peoples’ immeasurable pain and suffering, reckon with the realization of our own destructive tensions and then attune ourselves to meeting the challenges that Ukrainian children are facing as they struggle to stay alive, as they watch us, as they learn from us about us, and observe the consequences of acts of terror and murder? This discussion will invite all to become more emotionally ready to step into the world of the Ukrainian child, parent, and family member, the educator or healthcare worker, the leader or any human being to respond, as a collective, to this “URGENT CALL TO ACTION.”

No CME or CE credits offered.

 

Gilbert Kliman M.D., a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, is Chairperson of The Harlem Family Institute and of The Children’s Psychological Health Center. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kliman is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including both the Anna Freud Prize and the Humanitarian Award of The American Psychoanalytic Association, the Rieger Award of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the David Dean Brockman Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.

Dr. Kliman is the author of several books about and for children, including Children and The Death of a President and Psychological Emergencies of Childhood. His book Responsible Parenthood (co-authored) was awarded the Janusz Korczak Prize as “World’s best book for the nurture and well-being of children.” His other publications include Guided Activity Workbooks for children, families, and caregivers in disasters, such as the Sichuan Earthquake in China, Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the attack of 9/11 on America, the Gulf Wars, school shootings, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. Over 60,000 copies of his guided workbooks are in use worldwide in many languages. His book Toward Prevention of Genocide casts light on the psychology of brutal political leaders.

B. James Bennett, M.D., Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalyst/Psychiatrist is also Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas. He is a Personal and Consulting Psychoanalyst at the Centers where he trained in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies – Houston and Adult Psychoanalysis at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. With his wife, Sarah Rabb Bennett, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalyst, he provided pro-bono consultation to the Lumin Lindsley Park and East Dallas Community Schools for many years. Lumin Lindsley Park Community School was the recipient of the APsaA Schools Committee Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award. Dr. Bennett contributed to the Parent Work Casebook, edited by Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick, Denia Barrett and Tom Barrett. Dr. Bennett was a Ginsburg Fellow at the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and Resident Fellow at the American Psychoanalytic Association and honored for his work in Early Intervention and School Based Mental Health Clinics at the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D. is a board-certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst who founded Psychological Assets, PC and Kliger Consulting Group, LLC 30 plus years ago. With broad professional expertise, she works with children/adolescents, adults, families, leaders, organizations, and communities from diverse social, cross-generational, and cultural backgrounds. She is Principal Organizational, Relational and Cultural Consultant of Harlem Psychoanalytic Family Institute, a member of APsaA and IPA, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, American Psychological Association (APA), and Black Psychoanalysts Speak (BPS). Dr. Kliger’s writings and artwork, which speak to her long-standing work with people from multidimensional and relational contexts of life, offer an innovative approach to working side by side with psychoanalytically informed partners. Dr. Kliger is winner of the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award for both poetry and illustrations for her book: Power Your Heart, You Power Your Mind, Self-Study then Build A Bridge to Someone. Her co-produced podcast: “We Are Human First” received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award and can be found on Spotify, Apple, and the website www.psychassets.com.